Cultivated Quiet

any pronouns (but e/er are my faves). old and fucking tired

[yellow-cat]

remember to be scared all day so youre not caught off guard when it happens

[luciacaminoz]

my relationship with dragon age as a series is so twisted it’s like my ex-husband i divorced in the messiest way possible but i still have feelings for him nobody knows me like he does and we have occasional passionate love affairs still but also i daydream about killing him in his sleep quite often

[luciacaminoz]

hes lying next to me in bed my hands are shaking closing around his throat i cant see through the tears

[decompose1]

real exchange i overheard between two of my bosses. ????

[3000s]

my collage: man looking at display of food

[3000s]

they had this in the moma for a while but they had to take it down because people felt too moved by it and would start crying

[dogpuppy]

[shetheyslain]

It feels so gauche to be attracted to men, “oh look at me I want to fuck the person who has all the political power in our society” mortifying

[enheduannaaa]

[himejoshibutch-archived]

i hate yaoi. what's worse than one man? two men!!!

[kjscottwrites]

[thepeacefulgarden]

[sunhatred-deactivated20220531]

Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

"I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn't do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What's that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-"

[ardatli]

This is also the fantasy behind all those old bodice-ripper romances that people today like to mock or call problematic, by the way.

"Oh, my next forty years are going to consist of nothing but washing dishes and keeping house and bearing children for the disdainful man I married right out of high school because my parents said college was for men and I had no other obvious life path open to me? What if a pirate captain thought I was worth stealing away from it all? [what if I ran away but no-one could blame me for leaving]?"

[inbabylontheywept]

my wife's hours are bonkers right so, and its been messing up my sleep a little because im not used to sleeping without her around. so i only got about four and a half hours of sleep last night. and then today i came home and i wanted a snack and i sort of accidentally ate an entire large deli container of bleu cheese crumbles + a mangesium vitamin gummy + a melatonin before realizing that the last time i went to sleep after eating Extraordinary Amounts of Psychoactive Cheese i met the ghost of my grandfather who told me that he wasnt upset at me for not being there when he died. and i am not actually in a headspace to deal with that right now. but im also not really able to stay awake. so im just kind of talking to the one crumble i have left like, hey, man, i know i kind of fucked up here, but take it easy on me. im. im scared. no ghosts this time. it actually meant a lot to me last time but i dont want two ghosts in one year thats way too many ghosts. maybe just make this one kind of wacky. nevertheless. not my will, but thine, be done.

[inbabylontheywept]

yeah no i dont think this is a genre of post i think this is a very specific problem for me.

[saintlamb]

2020

[feyburner]

Sibling made classic error of saying the Master and Commander movie “meowmeow-washes” Stephen Maturin in front of parents and was immediately questioned. Turned to me for backup. I said yeah sibling what does meowmeow-washes mean. They’re now 5 minutes in. Explaining “pathetic wet beast” to stepmom. “You know when you wash a cat and it’s a sopping wet beast and it’s just kind of pathetic and yucky.” Glancing over every now and then for help. You’ll receive no quarter from me.

[megafaunatic]

every day i suffer in this fucking family

[megafaunatic]

a smidgen of vindication. fey has just had to tell our father that he (fey) is working on his fan fiction for The Long Walk (2025) adapted from The Long Walk by Stephen King (1979). "are you normally a stephen king fan?" "no."

[you2018]

it's time to go put a sandwich in the oven for 45 minutes to an hour

[yuriartillery]

i hate everyone who doesn't get migraines. but at least my migraines make me special

[yuriartillery]

its a sign that my psionic powers are manifesting.

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

we need more mean butches in media that never reconnect with their feminity and never feel longing for the nuclear life they gave up on. and I mean nowwwwww